cocktails by the pool

 
Style: Smooth Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Atlantic

Year: 1989

Condition: VG+/VG+

Wonderful Post Metheny fusion gems.

The whirlwind is gentle yet impressive!

Of course it is a bit esoteric too...

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Style: AOL / Intimate

Format: LP
Label: American Clavé

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

Make Love 2 is the ultimate sensual jam. And there are more gems on this Adult Orientated Latin album!

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Style: Fluffy Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Atlantic

Year: 1987

Condition: VG+/VG+

Leave the yacht by jumping into the water!

Mellow fusion for marine excursions...

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Style: Tropical Tato

Format: LP
Label: Tropical Music

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

Tato Gomez! Santiago member and producer of so many incredible jams. Not only for his friends Paco Saval and Mario Argandona - also hits like Purple Schulz's Sehnsucht come from his desk. Here's his first solo effort. Tropical juices and eau de cologne. And it's that delicious!

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Style: Balearic as yuck

Format: 7"
Label: Metronome

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+  

Sweet ans sticky balearic, I mean ultrabalearic pop with synthetic trumpets and lots of empty cocktail glasses. Not sure about the lyrics as I don't understand it well. Makes it even more interesting... golden war?!?

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Style:  Balearic Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Inside (Private)

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+ 

A highly recommended 80s Fusion album with lots of tracks that will amaze friends of guitar driven mediterrenean Jazz. 

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Style: Eso Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Wea

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+  

One of my favourite Esoteric Cocktail discoveries.

Friendly and open minded organic jazz : )

Including the amazing Pinnacles 

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Style: Cocktails by the pool

Format: LP
Label: Happy Bird

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

wonderful summer vibes on this under the radar 80s Latin / Easy Jazz LP. Good vibes all the way... so many nice cuts.... featuring Ringo Hirth from Kitty Winter's Gypsy Nova on drums.

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Style: Ethno Pop / Balearic

Format: LP
Label: Kopf

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+ tiny seamsplit

Wonderful Balearic Pop by the turkish-german group Bescay. Jochen Schrumpf from Ceddo on guitar. This one isn't that easy to find but once you got it, TOTAL BLISS is guaranteed!

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Style: Coctails by the game

Format: 12"
Label: Polydor

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/NM

Classy fusion of elegant Synth Pop and wonky Italo-Disco.

Let the cocktail glasses clank!

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Style: Modal Madness

Format: LP
Label: Village Music

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/NM

Please excuse me leaving out Joan Johnson in the title. Maybe I can praise her here by telling you that the vocal tracks are really the highlights of the already magnificent album. And I really wonder why this one does not have holy grail status as it's better than most of the german modal grails... You judge now!

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Style: Tropical Bonkers

Format: 12"
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1999

Condition: M/M

Still sealed copy of Jiskefet's bonkers Maxi Single. "Amazing self-released 12" by the infamous Dutch comedian collective Jiskefet from the nineties. Two bizar eighties German crimi sounding tracks with equally bizar German text lines and composed with great electronic synths and musicality that would easily fit in any crazy Italo or Electro set. Well mastered and pressed on firm pink vinyl, highly recommended!" (stolen from a discogs review). Einen Tropical Drink, bitte!

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Style: Esoteric Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Picap

Year: 1987

Condition: VG+/VG+

Post Bibiloni fusion from Spain.

Just the amount of sundwon you needed!

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Style: Smooth Jazz / Silk Pop

Format: CD
Label: Mikado

Year: 1993

Condition: NM/VG+  

Silky Pop from the Ghia crew. Emotional Pop and smooth ballads plus this supersmooth Fusion floater Tender Rain.

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Style: Cocktails by the pool

Format: CD
Label: Monopol

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/NM

Here's some incredibly funky late 80s smooth Jazz that you would NEVER expect from guys who have previously recorded with C.C. Catch, Chris Norman, Modern Talking and Blue System.

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Style: Easy!

Format: LP
Label: Sikorski

Year: 197?

Condition: VG+/VG+

Wether you're galopping into the sunset (on a pony, all in suede) or you're counting the parrots in the tree - this is your easy mo beasy soundtrack...

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Style: Balearic!

Format: 12"
Label: MFD

Year: 2018

Condition: M/M

When West Coast grooves enter the Baleares  and Hawaii is shining through. Loveliest vibes from Japan plus remixes. Phil Mison's reworks stand out !

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Style: Mediterrenean Travels

Format: LP
Label: Telefunken

Year: 1974

Condition: VG+/VG+

DOLCE!!! Before Alec R. Costandinos produced all these continetal disco gems he recorded this wonderful album under the moniker Milton Di Sao Paulo. The whole thing was arranged by genious Ivan Jullien and sounds incredibly rich. South american tristeza meets balearic funk.

Don't Miss This!!

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Style: Cocktails by the pool

Format: LP
Label: Happy Bird

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/NM 

wonderful summer vibes on this under the radar 80s Latin / Easy Jazz LP. Good vibes all the way... so many nice cuts.... featuring Ringo Hirth from Kitty Winter's Gypsy Nova on drums

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Style:  Über-BALEARIC / Flamenco Jazz

Format: LP
Label: APM / Polydor

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Excellent Flamenco Jazz made in Germany featuring Santiago's Tato Gomez. This record is including the balearic ÜBER-HIT Nena. Do yourself a favour and listen!!!

NENA!

 
Style: Various

Format: LP
Label: Melodya

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG+  

Estonian compilation including Radar's "Samba".

Forget about Bamba's Dimenzio.

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Style:  Cocktail Happy Jazz-Funk

Format: LP
Label: Innovative Communication

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

Swedish Jazz-Funk on Klaus Schulze's label? Yep and it just can't go wrong..... Some very sensual Jazz-Funk that is and there's 3 very persuasive tracks that may give you shivers. One of them was played at a cocktail party by the pool last year and I got quite some ID requests for that track... maybe that's why it's pretty tough to come by now?

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Style:  Party Crushers

Format: LP
Label: Merlin (Private)

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/VG+  corner bump

One of the obscurest private DIY Pop records I came across in the last few years. Of course I got attracted by the beautiful combination of cover and title ;) Musically it's just as interesting: Soft but cynical Post Sade Synth-Pop with a boogie touch at times!

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Style: Balearic Boogie

Format: 12"
Label: DA

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

Two tight jams breathing out fresh Rimini air.

Italo Boogie Down at the waterfront with a cocktail in hand!

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Style: flying sax at sundown

Format: 12"
Label: Nunk

Year: 1984

Condition: VG+/VG+

Balearic boogie meets the flying sexyphone at sundown - in Santa Barbara of course! If that wasn't enough there's also this speccial occasion to walk down California Street. Fans of the genre will quickly snap that this one is not just another version of FG's Romance's What Is Love Today - it sounds so much better on that california street!! All written by Frank de Gryse ;) NM copy with two gentle pops!

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Style: Soft Funk / Breezy Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Punch

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+  

Library style Balearic Funk meets breezy Latin Jazz with some heavy guitar scatting. Weird and wonderful...

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Style: Emotional Overlord

Format: LP
Label: Grabaciones Accidentales

Year: 1988

Condition: VG+/VG+

Elegant and emotional cocktail party vibes from the Costa del Azaha.

Get yourself a Tinto de Verano or an Agua De Valencia and smoothly groove along the dawning sun!

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Style:  WONDERFUL

Format: LP
Label: Vondue (Private)

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/NM

This is one of my all time favourite records! Norbert Gottschalk's voice is the finest Germany has to offer. I even prefer him to Mark Murphy. Enough of the adulation and back to the facts. It's a private release so it's not available everywhere. And apart from being rare it's a wonderful album with 5 mindblowing tracks, 1 amazing track, 1 standard and a blues.....

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Style: Cocktail Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Windham Hill

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+  

I'm so in love with this hell of a tune Enivre D'Amour.

One of the classiest Cocktail Jazz pieces I've ever heard :)

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Style: Emotional Ambient

Format: LP
Label: Mermaid Music

Year: 1987

Condition: VG+/VG+

Highly emotional ambient soundscapes with a wink from Denmark's mermaids. Chill 2000!

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Style: Contemporary Jazz / Latin Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Stunt

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+  

This danish gem hardly pops up outside of Denmark (where i found it as well). Not just the playful Samba Song will make you smile. The whole album is a treat. Listen to Bo Stief on Bass!!

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Style: Spooky Balearic / Halloween Cocktail Party

Format: 12"
Label: Polydor

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

Maybe the only Halloween track suitable for a cocktail party? Have you ever had a Halloween on the beach? Too many questions?

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Style: Deep Rhythms

Format: LP
Label: GRP

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/NM

Deep Rhythms on this boogie influenced smooth jazz album. Check out the wonderful Amethyst Secrets!!

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Style: Jazz Rock / Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Melodya

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+  

Great estonian Jazz Rock featuring lovely versions of standards like Summertime and Sweet Georgia Brown, but my fave is the funky & exotic scat-tune Fa-Ya-Fa-Ya. Highest recommendation!

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Style: Summer Pop

Format: LP
Label: 1988

Year: WEA

Condition: NM/VG+  

Matt Bianco's second longplayer. Including more of those lovely latin-jazz-pop-composites for the balearic sessions in the sun and the spectacular piano house tune Wap Bam Boogie

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